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fatsi
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: what could be the next best thing for sat nav |
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| so what is going to be the next best thing to go on the sat nav. we all ready have the speed cams which to me is the best thing but now as they started to come with mp3 players, take your pics and play your films. what next? |
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PaulB2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: |
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For me it'll be that manufacturers will stop messing about with stupid fluff like mp3 players, video players, picture viewers, audio book players and FM transmitters and get back to concentrating on the Routing Engine (inc stuff like IQ Routes & TMC Traffic) and Map Updates.
I often wonder how much R&D and UAT time was "lost" to such trivialities... |
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For me, I'd like them to have half decent maps.
The TT ones are pretty naff, I don't mean them being as detailed as OS maps, but I'm sure more could be done.
Rivers, some contours, a little more detail like you find in any Road Atlas.
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MaFt
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i think it'd be handy if the maps had data for traffic light locations. that way we could add a setting to the routing options such as 'delay for traffic lights' = 120 seconds. this would help improve both routing and eta as traffic light / junction delays could be taken into account.
it would be different to IQ routes as more devices could use the data and it wouldn't be harvested 'on the sly' by paying users who then have to pay to use the data again :D
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mikealder
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: |
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This one has been mentioned before but its worth listing again:
An avoid POI feature, it can't be too difficult can it? - Mike |
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mostdom
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Location: Surrey, UK.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | i think it'd be handy if the maps had data for traffic light locations. that way we could add a setting to the routing options such as 'delay for traffic lights' = 120 seconds. this would help improve both routing and eta as traffic light / junction delays could be taken into account. |
Top idea! Throw days of the week and time of day into the mix and your onto a winner. I thought that the manufacturers were under the knife to produce this stuff anyway.
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Mullet
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| "Intelligent" HUD overlay. |
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Border_Collie
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| Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:47 am Post subject: |
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Avoid a city e.g. Paris, and better still, a Country, as in Switzerland.
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